Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
PAT CONROYMy soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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